Friendship
is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to
weigh thoughts nor measure words.
-- George Eliot
"A
friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is
a person with whom I may be sincere."
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The
glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the
joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he
discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his
friendship.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"We
do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in
need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)
"Friends
show their love in times of trouble..."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)
"One loyal friend
is worth ten thousand relatives."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)
A
quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
-- St.
Francis De Sales
"A
good friend is my nearest relation."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)
"My friend is
he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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"It is easy enough
to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as
your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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True
friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
--Dave Tyson
Gentry
"Your
friend is your needs answered."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Let there be
no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
-- Kahil Gibran.
"Let
your best be for your friend..."
-- Kahil Gibran
"In the sweetness
of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil
Gibran
"Friendship
multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)
"Friends
are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)
Friendship
reaches well above all currency.
-- Robert M. Hensel
"The best mirror
is an old friend."
--George Herbert
Don't
flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to
your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary
do tact and courtesy become.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A sympathetic
friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)
"Your
friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert
Hubbard
"Who
finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying
"We cannot tell
the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop,
there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses
there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
-- Samuel Johnson
The
friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its
rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each
other.
-- Samuel Johnson
